Seekers of Happiness

1h 24m
Drama
5.7

During the 1920s, many impoverished Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family's immigration to Birobidzhan and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area.

Cast

Venyamin Zuskin
Pinya Kopman
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Dvoina
L.A. Shmidt
Rosa
Nikolai Valyano
Lyova
Sergei Yarov
Kornei
Iona Biy-Brodskiy
Shlyoma Petrovich
Georgiy Gorbunov
Unknown

Crew

Vladimir Korsh
Director
Iosif Shapiro
Co-Director
Iogann Zeltser
Screenplay
Grigoriy Kobetz
Screenplay
B. Ryabov
Director of Photography
Konstantin Pogodin
Director of Photography
Nadezhda Brilliantshikova
Assistant Director
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Production Design
Nikolai Kosarev
Sound Director
Kirill Poznyshev
Sound Director
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Sofya Ivnitskaya
Songs
Solomon Mikhoels
Script Consultant
A. Fedor
Assistant Production Design

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